PLEA BARGAINS - RIGHTS OF VICTIM -
must be considered before the court can order that defendant’s plea be non-evidential in a civil proceeding.STATE V. FAUCE

PLEA BARGAIN -
The trial court was not authorized to set aside plea agreement based solely on prosecutor's failure to notify victims prior to entering into plea agreement.STATE V. MEANS

PRETRIAL DISCOVERY - PHOTOGRAPH OF SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM -
State was not required to provide to defendant a photograph of victim.STATE V. GILCHRIST

PRETRIAL DISCOVERY -
State was required to produce in discovery any criminal case history information regarding murder victim which related to charges involving violence, aggressiveness, or offenses against person.STATE V. CARTER

PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION OF CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM -
court's failure to order psychiatric examination of three and one-half-year-old witness solely on grounds of her age was not abuse of discretion. STATE V. R.W. (NY)

RESTITUTION -
Victim is entitled to full restitution under CVRA and court may consider defendant’s future earnings in ordering the restitution amount.UNITED STATES V. SERAWOP

SENTENCING – VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS – DEATH PENALTY -
Statement of victim’s mother that she believed the defendant should not receive the death penalty was improper.STATE V. KOSKOVICH

SENTENCING - VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT -
Juvenile Court- victim of crime for which juvenile has been adjudicated delinquent may personally address court prior to sentencing of that juvenile.STATE IN THE INTEREST OF O.G.

TRIAL – RAPE SHIELD -
Rape shield statute applied, although victim was now deceased and testimony by victim's acquaintance, that victim stated she provided sex to men in exchange for money to buy drugs, was inadmissible.STATE V. CLOWNEY

TRIAL - TESTIMONY - SEXUAL ASSAULT -
niece's testimony about defendant's sexual assaults against her, during a period preceding the two periods for which he was charged, was admissible as res gestae evidence.STATE V. L.P

TRIAL – CRIME VICTIM SERVING ON A JURY -
refusal to excuse for cause a prospective juror who had been a recent victim of a crime similar in nature to that with which defendant was charged was not so clearly an abuse of discretion as to necessitate reversal on that ground alone when defendant was compelled to exercise his last peremptory challenge to excuse juror in absence of any allegations of bias or unfairness in trial itself.STATE V. SINGLETARY

TRIAL – TESTIMONY – SEXUAL ASSAULT -
Nature and Degree of Force - Force required for second-degree sexual assault need not be extrinsic to the penetration, and (2) permission to engage in sexual penetration must be affirmative and must be freely given.STATE IN THE INTEREST OF M.T.S.

TRIAL – CHANGE OF VENUE -
Victim's Rights Amendment does not merely allow victims to attend a trial and empaneling a foreign jury was justified by burdens on victim's family and was constitutional.STATE V. TIMMENDEQUAS